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210 Mr. A. G. Butler on the genus Sypna. 
streak, and a dot on each side of it upon the costa within 
the band; a blackish piceous line limiting the band in- 
ternally, and an externally diffused band of the same 
colour limiting it externally; an incomplete elbowed 
subbasal black band, bordered on both sides with tes- 
taceous; external area testaceous, irregular, sinuated 
internally, and limited by a series of blackish spots; a 
submarginal series of small white spots dotted with 
black ; secondaries fuliginous-brown ; an indistinct pale- 
bordered dusky curved stripe from the abdominal border 
to the radial vein ; a testaceous stripe bordered externally 
with blackish from the anal angle to the second sub- 
costal branch; a submarginal series of white-pupilled 
black spots, terminating at anal angle in a short white- 
edged black stria; frimge with a slender undulated basal 
testaceous line; thorax fuliginous-brown; antenne 
ferruginous towards the tips; abdomen greyish brown ; 
under surface whity brown, densely irrorated with greyish 
brown scales; primaries not speckled towards the 
interno-basal area ; a sinuous broadly whitish-bordered 
black-brown band from beyond the cell to the inner 
margin, its outer edge bounded by a curved dusky band; 
an abbreviated transverse subapical dash; a_ sub- 
marginal series of black and pale yellowish dots ; 
secondaries with a blackish-edged whitish disco-cellular 
spot ; a sinuous post-median blackish stripe, with pale 
external border, followed by a nebulous indistinct dusky 
discal belt ; submarginal spots as in primaries ; expanse 
of wings, 2 inches 2—5 lines. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale).—Type, B. M. 
28. Sypna complicata. 
Sypna complicata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
ser. 5, vol. 5, p. 389, n. 46 (1880). 
Fianarantsoa, Madagascar (Cowan).—Type, B. M. 
In determining the species of Sypna I have been 
assisted by Mr. Kirby’s MS. List of the described species, 
for which I have to thank him, as it has satisfied me 
that I have overlooked nothing. 
